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Easter joy at YSM

Over the holiday weekend, we hosted a delicious hot meal for 200 community members to enjoy.
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Image of the group of people involved in the #HackPoverty initiative

#HackPoverty celebration

Leaders from key sectors across Toronto are coming together with lived experience leaders to identify areas for actionable change to break cycles of poverty.
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Hand-drawn image of what art therapy participants hope to offer to and receive from the trauma-informed art therapy group at YSM

Trauma-informed art therapy group heals through connection

YSM's free, accessible art therapy group can safely explore their feelings while also experiencing connection, compassion, acceptance, and belonging.
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Image of Richard and Lorelai Jenkins cutting the ribbon to open YSM's new health centre for vulnerable youth.

Our new Evergreen Health Centre has opened!

Housed in YSM’s Evergreen Centre on Spadina Avenue, YSM's new Richard and Lorelei Jenkins & Family Health and Dental Centre increased the size of our health centre, which provides physicals, eye exams, chiropractic care, dental surgery, physiotherapy, and more.
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YSM President & CEO Angie Peters speaks to young entrepreneurs at YSM's Fish Tank

Cornerstone students enter the YSM Fish Tank

What gets kids thinking as entrepreneurs and diving enthusiastically into learning about money management? A challenge, in January, to compete in YSM’s first-ever Fish Tank, a business case competition. Over three days, sixty students between the ages of 8 and 13 participated in Junior Achievement’s “More than Money” program led

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Recent graduates of YSM's Computer Literacy Centre

YSM’s Computer Literacy Centre: A life-giving place

Yathu’s story Eighteen years ago, when Yathu was in seventh grade, his mom told him she’d signed him up for a computer club at YSM twice a week after school. Yathu’s parents had come to Canada as part of a wave of immigrants fleeing civil war in Sri Lanka in

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Pathways to Meaningful Income: Systems Navigation

Supported by Future Skills Centre, Pathways to Meaningful Income: Systems Navigation explores how YSM’s Care Management Program guides community members to achieve forward movement in their lives and the different forms of support they can receive toward meaningful income. Learn more here.

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YSM Impact Stories Meet a valuable new member of YSM’s staff family!

Meet CATM’s Assistant Pastor Jonathan Tysick

Despite being early in his career, YSM’s newest member of our Church at the Mission (CATM) Pastoral Care team, Jonathan Tysick has accumulated a wealth of lived experience beyond that of many who may be twice his age. Married with two young children, Jonathan has earned a Master of Theological

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YSM Impact Stories Strengthening Family Bonds with Children’s Aid Society of Toronto

Strengthening Family Bonds

Since January, YSM’s Cornerstone Family Services has been piloting an innovative program with the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST) to provide an onsite reunion space where our staff supervises visits between Children’s Aid Society involved children and their parents. This new program is part of YSM’s Cornerstone Partnership, a

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YSM Impact Stories Corporate Partnerships with Kinectrics

The Power of Philanthropy

Partnerships play a vital role in Yonge Street Mission’s ability to serve the community. One of our trusted collaborations, which dates back to 2019, is with electric power company Kinectrics. It started when our President & CEO Angie Peters was invited by Kinectrics’ CEO David Harris to speak about YSM’s

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Pathways to Meaningful Income: The Employer’s Experience

Supported by Future Skills Centre, Pathways to Meaningful Income: The Employer’s Experience explores how YSM collaborates with community members to provide personalized employment skills training, job search support, and ongoing assistance to achieve meaningful income. Learn more here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmduYK3Km1k&feature=youtu.be

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Regent’s Tank

REGENT’S TANK: YSM MICRO-GRANT PITCH COMPETITION YSM is launching an exciting event that will culminate in small local-community business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs, presenting a formal pitch showcasing their business plans, to receive a micro-grant valued between $1000 and $2000. We are now seeking interested individuals with backgrounds in business

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YSM Director of Street-Involved Services, Renaldo Wall

Meet Renaldo Wall, Director of Street-Involved Services

Back in the summer of 2022, Renaldo had been feeling it was time for a career change. He had been praying that he’d be delivered to such a change when a friend sent him a YSM job posting seeking a Director of Street-Involved Services.  The role required an established leader

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Pathways to Meaningful Income: An Individual’s Journey

Supported by Future Skills Centre, Pathways to Meaningful Income: An Individual’s Journey explores how a community member living in poverty secures meaningful employment, as well as mental health support along the way. Learn more here. https://youtu.be/YhV_-WOKuRw

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Jan Rothenburger, YSM Evergreen Centre, Toronto Christian homeless support

Jan Rothenburger: The People’s Pastor

In 1991, after recently coming to faith, Jan Rothenburger found herself at a unique church service at YSM’s Evergreen Centre. The church served as a safe space for community members to call ‘home’, especially those not comfortable in other faith communities.  Jan attended Evergreen’s services weekly while connecting with street-involved

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